[lbo-talk] Fw: Geopolitics with Robert D. Kaplan: Is Greece European?

CHRISTOPHERR CARRICO ccarrico at temple.edu
Thu Jun 7 07:38:29 PDT 2012


Ismail,

It's funny that you should post this this morning. I just finished reading Robert Kaplan's first book, Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea (1988) this morning. It's filled with amazing gems of wisdom, like how grateful people in the Horn of Africa should be for Italian colonialism, how hypocritical those who argued for sanctions against Apartheid S.A. were because it was a moderate and reasonable gov't compared to most Sub-Saharan countries under black African rule, and how the U.S. made a big mistake in the region (even under Reagan) by focusing on food aid instead of focusing more on the war against communism. He probably thinks that the answer to the Greek crisis is to send in the drones.



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